Cjs Smile
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 301336561
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Menifee, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3108929080
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,437
- Expenses
- $21,581
- Assets
- $86,824
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie Delfosse (Founder & CEO)
- Chris Delfosse (Founder & President)
- Ellen Sasto (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie Delfosse (Founder & CEO)
- Chris Delfosse (Founder & President)
- Rod Amstutz (CFO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
CJ's Smile is dedicated to bringing hope and comfort to children facing the challenges of a cancer diagnosis. Our signature Blessing Envelopes are filled with encouragement, support, and a little joy for children newly diagnosed with cancer. Beyond supporting families, CJ's Smile is proud to give back to the community. Together, we can brighten the path for children and families facing childhood cancer-and spread hope throughout our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
CJ's Smile provides monthly Blessing Envelopes filled with gift cards, comfort items, and words of encouragement to children newly diagnosed with cancer. In 2025, we distributed approximately 250 Blessing Envelopes to children and families throughout the year, primarily serving the Murrieta/Temecula region and surrounding communities. CJ's Smile also awarded $1,000 in grants to the Murrieta Dollars for Scholars program, supporting 2 student scholarship recipients at $500 each. As part of our ongoing hospital outreach, we provided $1,000 in gift cards to pediatric patients at Rady Children's Hospital. Additionally, CJ's Smile provided emergency financial assistance to 3-4 families facing crisis situations, with individual assistance exceeding $500 per family. Our mission is to ensure no family faces a childhood cancer diagnosis alone.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.8%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.6%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.